{"id":4775,"date":"2012-02-03T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2012-02-03T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:10:47","slug":"coalition-now-saying-fibre-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/02\/coalition-now-saying-fibre-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Now Saying Fibre A Good Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TurnbullMalcolm\/status\/165200643991142401\">curious tweet just now<\/a> from opposition communications spokesperson, Malcolm Turnbull, in regards to &#8220;ultrafast&#8221; internet being launched by British Telecom.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Malcolm suggests in his tweet that this solution &#8211; (FTTC for most people, and FTTP for those who want it) &#8211; is better than the full FTTP network <i>currently under construction<\/i> by NBN Co.<\/p>\n<p>Huh?  What is FTTC?<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fiber_to_the_x#Fiber_to_the_curb\">Fibre-to-the-Curb (FTTC)<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;FTTC is subtly distinct from FTTN or FTTP (all are versions of Fiber in the Loop). The main difference is the placement of the cabinet. FTTC will be placed near the &#8220;curb&#8221; which differs from FTTN which is placed far from the customer and FTTP which is placed right at the serving location.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So he&#8217;s praising a solution that <i>runs fibre down every street<\/i>, while bagging the NBN FTTP network, which <i>runs fibre down every street<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s not <i>exactly<\/i> the same as an FTTP rollout, but given his love for his FTTN solution, why praise a solution that is <i>almost<\/i> exactly what he is normally against?<\/p>\n<p>Non sequitur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curious tweet just now from opposition communications spokesperson, Malcolm Turnbull, in regards to &#8220;ultrafast&#8221; internet being launched by British Telecom. Malcolm suggests in his tweet that this solution &#8211; (FTTC for most people, and FTTP for those who want it) &#8211; is better than the full FTTP network currently under construction by NBN Co. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,368],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auspol","tag-nbn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}